73
Now or a month was come an gone,
This lady bare a bonny young son.
74
An it was well written on his breast-bane
'Gil Brenton is my father's name.'
B.
Scott's Minstrelsy, II, 117, ed. 1802. Ed. 1830, III, 263. Partly from the recitation of Miss Christian Rutherford.
1
Cospatrick has sent oer the faem,
Cospatrick brought his ladye hame.
2
And fourscore ships have come her wi,
The ladye by the grenewood tree.
3
There were twal and twal wi baken bread,
And twal and twal wi gowd sae reid:
4
And twal and twal wi bouted flour,
And twal and twal wi the paramour.
5
Sweet Willy was a widow's son,
And at her stirrup he did run.
6
And she was clad in the finest pall,
But aye she let the tears down fall.